Andrew Viterbi - Strategic Advisor

Dr. Viterbi is a co-founder and retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of QUALCOMM Incorporated. He spent equal portions of his career in the industry, having previously co-founded Linkabit Corporation, and in academia as a professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, first at UCLA and then at UCSD, at which he is now Professor Emeritus. He is president of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. He also serves as a Presidential Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California and as a distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

His principal research contribution, the Viterbi Algorithm, is used in most digital cellular phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in such diverse fields as magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis. More recently, he concentrated his efforts on establishing CDMA as the multiple access technology of choice for cellular telephony and wireless data communication.

Dr. Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the United States and internationally. Among these are seven honorary doctorates and membership in the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an honorary title from the President of Italy and the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States. In 2010, he received the IEEE Medal of Honor, the organizations highest award.

Thomas MacDaniel - Strategic Advisor

Mr. McDaniel is an electric power industry veteran who recently retired from Edison International after 37 years, most recently as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. Mr. McDaniel was also Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Edison Mission Energy, an independent power company which developed and owned generating plants both domestically and internationally, as well as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Edison Capital, a provider of capital and financial services supporting the growth of energy and infrastructure projects, products and services. Mr. McDaniel currently serves on the board of directors of Sun Power Corporation.

James Kelly - Strategic Advisor

Mr. Kelly retired from Edison International (EIX) in 2011, after almost 38 years of service with the Company. EIX is the parent company of Southern California Edison, a regulated electric utility, and Edison Mission Group, an independent power company. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Kelly was the senior vice president of Transmission & Distribution for Southern California Edison, with responsibility for operations and maintenance of the company’s 50,000-square-mile service area with approximately 4.9 million customer accounts. Mr. Kelly was one of the early pioneers of the Smart Grid, developing a roadmap for a smarter, safer, more reliable and more environmentally responsible electric grid. He pioneered the deployment of synchronous phasor measurement, the Distribution Circuit of the Future, and many other advances in grid sensing, monitoring and control. Among many other awards and honors, Jim was selected as the IEEE’s “Leader in Power” in 2009.

Matt Ocko - Strategic Advisor

Mr. Ocko, Managing Director of Archimedes Capital Management, has twenty five years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and venture capitalist, both in the United States and in China. Mr. Ocko holds a BA in Physics from Yale University. Mr. Ocko was a General Partner of VantagePoint Venture Partners and Softbank Technology Ventures (of which he was a founder), as well as a Partner at Helix Investments. Mr. Ocko has been directly involved in building major practices at these firms and in raising over $2 billion in venture capital investments from limited partners. Mr. Ocko has led investments in and/or served on the Boards of the following companies: XenSource (acqd. by Citrix Systems), DataMirror (DMCX), SupportSoft (SPRT), CriticalPath (CPTH), VxTreme (acqd. by Microsoft), Planet U (acqd. by Transora), Zip2 (acqd. by Compaq), Verisign (VRSN), Alantro (acqd. by Texas Instruments), nDSP (acqd. by Pixelworks), Sandcraft (acqd. by Raza Microelectronics), NuCore (acqd. by MediaTek), 3Ware (acqd. by AMCC), Akimbi Systems (acqd. by VMWare), and Prio (acqd. by InfoSpace).